Kewaunee, WI
Kewaunee, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kewaunee lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,734 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kewaunee at the 9th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Kewaunee rates 84.9% Minimal exposure against just 15.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,734 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Kewaunee compares
Kewaunee scores 9th nationally and 5th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kewaunee ranks 28,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,286 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 771 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Kewaunee and the insurance market
Kewaunee's low rating (9th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 84.9% of Kewaunee outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kewaunee's 28,762-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kewaunee, see the exposure-zones guide.